How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This … managers to cooperatives with female-dominated boards, probably to curb the social orientation of these boards. Overall, gender … is a key factor in considering social performance, but gender interactions appear far more complex than previously …

This study goes beyond the descriptive analyses of women entrepreneur’s networks, and advances the idea of … Spanish women-owned business reveal that as the level of support obtained through the relationships with public entities … for overcoming lack of legitimacy and gender barriers. …

women and to the size of the (unadjusted) gender wage gap at the different levels of the wage distribution. The gender wage … industries differing in their share of women. Separate analyses are also undertaken concerning the influence of key individual …-related pay turns out increase for males relative to women with the female-dominance of the employee category under study. The …

more often than women, but are demoted less often. Thus the differences in career development tend to amplify the gender …This report analyses the careers of men and women in Finnish manufacturing in 19812006. The focus is on three main … issues : 1) gender differences in jobs and hierarchical positions in the beginning of the career, 2) gender differences in …

This paper estimates the effect of child gender on mothers’ and fathers’ parental leave using population-wide register … gender equality. However, non-traditional families, with high maternal relative earnings and/or educational levels, showed … even larger gender biases which suggest that it may be mothers, rather than fathers, that are the driving force behind this …

Nordic family policy setting described as both generous and gender egalitarian. The most common practice is that the father …

This study looks at how gender relates to a critical economic behavior—savings activity. We start with the proposition … that gender is not merely an additional variable to explain savings choices. Gender is the primary type of social … categorization in the U.S. today. Therefore, other variables will be differently relevant to savings depending on gender. We use a …

Recently, questions about gender gaps in science have extended to academic technology transfer. Using systematic data … on US medical school faculty, we capture both behavior and performance, examining the hypothesis that women are less … Academic Health Centers from 1991 to 1998—a period when patenting had become prevalent and other researchers note that a gender …